Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 4 – April 1990 – Interview: Michael Jay

Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 4 – April 1990 – Interview: Michael Jay

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Table of Contents

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FEATURES MICHAEL JAY – ON A HOT ROLL
John Braheny interviews one of LASS’ and Famous Music’s latest success stories, as he discusses his work with Martika, New Kids on the Block, Five Star, his writing and producing techniques and more. Page 8

TOOLS OF THE TRADE: Noise Wars – Hank Linderman offers some valuable advice on the eternal quest for noise-free recording Page 18

LASS AND ASG PLAN AUSTIN SONGWRITERS EXPO
Randy Delcah interviews LASS co-founder/director John Braheny about the first Austin Songwriters Expo on June 23-24 Page 20

THEORETICALLY SPEAKING Vertical vs. Horizontal Construction – David Cat Cohen shows you a couple of different approaches to writing that could increase your versatility Page 21

LASS NEWS

MEMBER NEWS – NOTEWORTHY – MUSICAL CHAIRS

News about classes, biz events,where your favorite publishers and a&r reps are this month and good stuff about our members Page 4

WEEKLY SHOWCASE SCHEDULE Cassette Roulette (publisher song critiques), Pitch-A-Thon (producers and record company reps looking for songs and acts), Pick-Ups (the names of writers whose songs got picked up at those sessions in the past month) Pages 13-14

From the Acting Archivist…

Much like the Songmine columns posted earlier, the archives contain a large collection of Songwriter Musepaper publications. With this posting, I am beginning a project to scan the cover and table of contents of each issue and then OCR (convert the scanned picture to text) the table of contents in order to make it searchable. I don’t yet have the staff necessary to create complete scanned issues of the Museupaper, but if there is interest in a particular article or interview, I can scan that and make it available here.

Douglas E. Welch, douglas@welchwrite.com

Previously in Songwriters Musepaper:

• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 10 – October 1990 – Songwriters Expo 14 – Interview: Glen Ballard
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 10 – October 1991 – Interview: Dewayne Blackwell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 9 –  September 1992 – Songwriters Expo 16 – Interview: Jennifer Warnes
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 10 – October 1993 – Cover: Charles John Quarto and Pete Wasner
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 8 – August 1993 – Cover: Interview: Janis Ian
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 10 – October 1992 – Cover: Interview: John Trudell